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Kane1389 on 04 September 2013
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snyps said:

thank you, they are cherrties!  And for resolutions, you would bitch about a difference of a few pixels that I labeled in the open.

Well, i guess i could understand you. I mean, YOU ARE trying to prove Wii U isnt significatly weaker than PS4

So Wii U went from no 3rd party to Wii U having relevant 3rd party support?  I'm glad you are starting to see.  We can agree that 3rd party support could be better.  As for that I need only qoute the legend johnlucas

No 3rd party support = no relevant 3rd party support. Thats what i meant. Everyone can have cooking mama and Imagine Party Babyz. That doesnt count as a good, relevant 3rd party support

"If the 3rd parties ever got square behind Nintendo with support, they lose their political leverage in the business.
Microsoft's & Sony's platforms are the vehicles for their political leverage & with the XBox One you got a taste of things to come should they run this industry outright.

Actually, it was Microsoft that came up with the idea of DRM for X1. EA supported it, everyone else disagreed with it. After all, EA and Microsoft and basically twins when it comes to buisness managment, and i agree, if MS + EA ever run this industry, i'll quit gaming on consoles.

VGChartz's Game Database tells the Absolute Truth: Nintendo RULES the best-selling games of all-time.i
You have to be the biggest of the biggest 3rd party titles like Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty to even be seen near the top of that list. And that doesn't even start until #16 with PS2's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. That means the Top 10 of all time are all Nintendo (And the Top 50/Top 100 are MOSTLY Nintendo).
Jak & Daxter, Killzone are nice. Forza Motorsport & Fable are decent. But NOTHING Sony's & Microsoft's 1st party teams put out can compare to the power of Nintendo's 1st party. The closest they ever got was with Gran Turismo & Halo.
One series a piece from them vs. many from Nintendo.
Nintendo sold you homework, called it Brain Age, & sold 20 million a piece EASY. Hardly no big graphics on that game.
They came up an exercising routine, packed in a bathroom scale that also measures balance, called it Wii Fit & sold 40 million altogether. Limited graphics there too.
Don't even get me started on Pokémon. It's so big it's got its own company within Nintendo.
Look for 'The Pokémon Company' on the label.
In order for the 3rd parties to even see Nintendo's milestones reliably they have to sell on multiple platforms.
Nintendo sells on just one: their own.
And how much marketing money goes into hyping up these games to make these sales compared to Nintendo's marketing?

Has absolutely nothing to do with our discussion.

Don't think the 3rd parties aren't aware of this. Don't think it doesn't horrify them. They're scared of Nintendo. Absolutely in fear. The gaming press promotes Sony's & Microsoft's platforms out the wazoo while usually throwing shade on anything Nintendo produces. They write the hierachies of platforms on the front page often writing Nintendo's last in the lineup. Gamestop puts Nintendo merchandise to the back of the store in a smaller space. And it doesn't matter. Nintendo still sells. You always hear calls for Nintendo to "get out of the hardware business", to "start making software for the other consoles like Sega", to "go handheld only". When they have absolutely no need to with the resources they have. The 3rd party needs this kind of noise to stand a chance."

Nintendo isn't a threat for anyone but themselves. They can pretty much never win a generation while going afor the core market again, those days are long gone (mostly thanks to the 3rd party btw), the only way they can get lucky if they hiit another causal hot button. And i dont see that happening since most casuals are now on their smartphones playing fruit ninja